From Augustus De Morgan "A Budget of Paradoxes"(SFU PN 6361 D45 1915 2 vols): Greene is one of the sources for Newton being led to think of gravitation by the fall of an apple: his authority is the ...

What did Newton understand that was such a revolution? Can someone just... explain gravity to me? Let's start with a ...

And all at once, Newton realised that the force of gravity pulling the apple down to the ground must ... These days, historians of science don’t fall for cosy eureka stories like this.

The Apple Newton gets a bad rap, partly because of the bad handwriting recognition of the first version of the firmware, and mostly because Steve Jobs hated it. Those who know of the Newton love ...

Newton returned home in 1665 after Cambridge University, where he was a student, closed because of the Great Plague. Years later, he told a story that a falling apple in the orchard inspired him ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...